Joel Part 1

The Day of the Lord Joel 1:1-20: The Insect Plague Introduction to the “Big Five” In Southern Africa, hunters call the elephant, lion, cape buffalo, rhinoceros and leopard the “Big Five,” as they are the five most dangerous and difficult animals to hunt on foot. I have named this series on Prophecy the “Big Five,”

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The Mind of Yeshua God’s Wisdom  “My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom (man’s philosophies), but on God’s power. God’s Wisdom revealed by the Spirit. We do, however, speak a message of

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The Divinity of Yeshua The Divinity of Jesus “In contrast to much of the sceptical scholarship, careful analysis of the gospels in the light of their Hebraic expressions, clarifies what is not always apparent in English translations; That Yeshua consistently and frequently makes claims for His divine identity” (D. A. Pryor [1]). If we see

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Pagan Philosophies vs. God’s Word Greek creation myth The theology that profoundly influenced Greek thought and ultimately Plato, was the ancient myth of the creation of man. In the myth, Zagreus, the son of Zeus, fell under the power of the Titans, the wicked enemy of Zeus. To evade the Titans, Zagreus changed into the

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The Languages and the Torah The Languages of 1st century Israel The four predominant languages spoken in Israel during the time of Yeshua were: Latin, the language of the ruling power. Greek, the language of the Hellenistic rule from the time of Alexander. Aramaic, a branch of the Semitic family of languages, especially the language

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The Galilee of Yeshua “Put your hand in the hand of the man who stilled the water, Put your hand in the hand of the man who calmed the sea, Take a look at yourself and you can look at others differently Put your hand in the hand of the man from Galilee” Allan Garrity

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Rabbi Yeshua Part 2 Introduction In this second study on Rabbi Yeshua, we look at how He followed the teaching methods of the rabbis of His day. Now, Yeshua is not just being polite and politically correct by adopting the teaching methods of the time. He is following the methods that the Godhood would have

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Rabbi Yeshua Part 1 The Early Years On return from the Babylonian exile, the leaders of Israel recognised that the key to their survival as a people required a diligent study of the Word of God. So, starting at the age of five, Jewish boys and girls would study by memorizing the Hebrew Bible, the

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The Youthful Yeshua “The Word became Flesh and Tabernacled Among us” (John 1:14) The Gospel of Luke records that Gabriel appeared to Zacharias, John the Baptist’s father, when he was serving as a priest in the temple, to inform him that he would have a son. According to Luke 1:5, Zacharias, was a priest of

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The Jewish Messiah Introduction Because this first study of Getting to Know Yeshua exposes errors in the Church regarding Yeshua and Israel, there is a requirement to give the facts. This necessity may cause some to feel that the study will be too academic and theological for their liking, and so believe that the course